Recently, “2020 China Textile Science and Technology Achievements Summit”, namely, the seventh “China’s Top Ten Textile Technologies” selection activity came to a successful conclusion. A jury of more than 20 experts from various fields, including Chinese Academy of Engineering, evaluated the solicited projects. The graphene woolen worsted fabric of Lanzhou Sanmao Textile (Group) Co., Ltd. was rated as a nomination project for the seventh “China’s Top Ten Textile Technologies”. It’s the first time that the company had broken the monopoly of technology awards of national scientific research institutes and universities. The company has won national excellent science and technology projects with its own technological innovation strength, marking the company’s leading position in the capability of scientific research and development as well as the capability of product innovation in the country.

In this selection, the declared products have gone through five important stages: preliminary recommendation, expert evaluation, network voting, result generation and result release. The final result will be released at the conference. Instead of on-the-spot communication, this selection fully utilized the advantages of online network platforms and used a combination of offline and online live streaming to connect the entire textile industry chain, providing a good platform for many enterprises to participate in the selection. In the voting process, online voting accounted for 35% and expert voting accounted for 65%. After expert evaluation and online voting, the title products of the seventh “China’s Top Ten Textile Technologies” were finally selected. The organizing committee commended the winning projects and actively promoted scientific and technological exchanges and the transformation of results.

In recent years, Lanzhou Sanmao Textile (Group) Co., Ltd. has widely carried out technological innovation and product innovation through various ways. The company has conducted in-depth technical research and development cooperation with many universities and research institutes in Gansu Province, and has also collaborated with Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics on the application of graphene materials in woolen worsted fabric. The “Graphene Woolen Worsted Fabrics Series” developed and produced by the company first won the honor of “China’s Popular Fabric Antibacterial Tag”. Then it obtained the software copyright of “The Design System of Graphene Woolen Worsted Functional Fabric V1.0” and applied for the invention patent of “An Antibacterial Process for Treating Woolen Worsted Fabrics with Graphene Oxide”. The successful research and development of graphene functional textiles has opened up broad market prospects for the company’s production and operation.

With abundant energy storage, low price, excellent function and high cost performance, Graphene materials not only reduce production costs of the company but also bring high added value to the fabric. In the next step, the company will make full use of the antibacterial properties of graphene and other properties to continually promote the research and development of functional fabrics, and further apply this product to various clothing fabrics such as industrial clothing, suits, shirts, scarves, decorative clothing, etc. to achieve greater benefits for the company’s woolen worsted fabric production.